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accord seek to serve the only true and living God ; that the 

 day is not far away when they will crj- out mightil}^, "The 

 Lord, the Lord, He is the true God." 



I am impressed that the religion of Jesus Christ is prepar- 

 ing for an amazing forward movement; that there are myste- 

 rious movements about to be executed on earth's chess-board; 

 that the inscrutable hand of Divinity is already quickening 

 his dealings with a long-rebellious world. I have even thought 

 that the Sunny South might become the favorite f^eld for the 

 advance of this great and glorious work, and have in my imag- 

 ination pictured our own bright Atlanta as a central or dis- 

 tributing point for the great revolution, the great reformation — 

 as a sort of new Jerusalem, a city set upon a hill. I have 

 also imagined that our women were going to take a prominent 

 part in the glorious work (I don't mean to preach), for I 

 believe we have got more real, genuine Christian women in the 

 South than any other ])ortion of this green earth, and not a 

 few good men; and I believe Atlanta has got more than the 

 average of both good men and women. 



Now learn the parable of the fig tree: " When his branch is 

 yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that the summer 

 is nisfh." "But of that dav and hour knoweth no man, no, 

 not the angels in heaven, but my father only." 



I do not wish it inferred from anything I have said, that I 

 have spoken aught in envy against the rich of earth, for I 

 believe an honest rich man is as good as a poor man, if he 

 loves God. My idea of his condemnation comes from the 

 scriptuies, which says, "How hardly shall a rich man enter the 

 kingdom of heaven." 



I believe there are rich Christians, and that it is scripturally 

 legitimate to make money, but that every man will be held 



